the lowest. If it does not heal in due time, inject a little carbolic
acid and water in the proportion of one drachm of the acid to one pint
of warm water each time after using the suds.

CROUP.

Croup, it is said, can be cured in one minute, and the remedy is
simply alum and sugar. Take a knife or grater and shave off in small
particles about a teaspoonful of alum; then mix it with twice its
amount of sugar, to make it palatable, and administer it as quickly as
possible. Almost instantaneous relief will follow. Turpentine is said
to be an excellent remedy for croup. Saturate a piece of flannel and
apply it to the chest and throat, and take inwardly three or four
drops on a lump of sugar.

_Another remedy._--Give a teaspoonful of ipecacuanha wine every few
minutes, until free vomiting is excited.

Another recipe said to be most reliable: Take two ounces of the wine
of ipecac, hive syrup four ounces, tincture of bloodroot two ounces.
Mix it well.

Dose for a child one year old, five to ten drops; two years, eight to
twelve drops; three years, twelve to fifteen drops; four years,
fifteen to twenty drops; five years, twenty to twenty-five drops, and
older children in proportion to age. Repeat as often as shall be
necessary to procure relief. If it is thought best to produce
vomiting, repeat the dose every ten or fifteen minutes for a few
doses.

BURNS AND SCALDS.

A piece of cotton wadding, spread with butter or sweet oil, and bound
on the burn instantly, will draw out the pain without leaving a scar;
also a handful of flour, bound on instantly, will prevent blistering.
The object is to entirely exclude the air from the part affected. Some
use common baking-soda, dry or wet, often giving instant relief,
withdrawing the heat and pain. Another valuable remedy is to beat the
yellow of an egg into linseed oil, and apply it with a feather on the
injured part frequently. It will afford ready relief and heals with
great rapidity. Some recommend the white part of the egg, which is
very cooling and soothing, and soon allays the smarting pain. It is
the exposure of the part coming in contact with the air that gives the
extreme discomfort experienced from ordinary afflictions of this kind,
and anything which excludes air and prevents inflammation is the thing
to be at once applied.

TO STOP THE FLOW OF BLOOD.

For a slight cut there is nothing better to control the hemorrhage
than common unglazed brown wrapping p